Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then we were off home-by taxi . |
| 2 | If I may say so the key point is n't it that a lot of the transactions you discussed were off market transactions , they were unusual transactions and the Financial Institutions that were carrying out those transactions whether they were acting as banker or acting a as broker , they would have had knowledge that those transactions were not normal market transactions . |
| 3 | The analysis showed that 40.9 per cent of claims were for hepatitis B. |
| 4 | If , for example , the module were for Computer Science students then there would be a concentration on text processing , database publishing and communications . |
| 5 | His first distinctive works were for percussion instruments or pianos prepared with nuts and bolts inserted between the strings . |
| 6 | The common misery imposed by coal rationing could be avoided by the simple expedient of plugging in and switching on , and in the later 1940s about two-fifths of domestic electricity sales were for space heating . |
| 7 | In a report on biodiversity , entitled Bringing Rio Home : Biodiversity in our Food and Farming , SAFE shows that in 1992 three varieties accounted for more than half of all the seed sown of winter wheat , spring wheat , barley , oats , rye , sugar beet and rapeseed ; the highest proportions were for spring wheat ( 86 per cent ) and oats ( 77 per cent ) . |
| 8 | The only patterns available were for hand knitting and no one had mentioned mock rib or using waste yarn . |
| 9 | There is no doubt that many of its customers have used loans in cases where they would previously have use ( more costly ) HP a 1977 survey showed that 59 per cent of the loans it made were for motor vehicle purchase . |
| 10 | Some of these cheeses were eaten the day they were made , with cream and sugar , some were for almond cheesecakes , some for the fillings of covered pies called Florentines , some for spiced cheese loaves baked in stoneware porringers . |
| 11 | It turned out the travel agent had told them their tickets were for tourist class where they would be safe . |
| 12 | These were for fairweather people only . |
| 13 | The purpose served by the two massive exhaust cowlings is less clear , but it 's unlikely Bugatti would test them if they were for styling reasons only . |
| 14 | The first two videos were about Branch Security with Do n't be a soft target being sent to all branches and What happens now ? being distributed to branches in Scotland . |
| 15 | • Ropeable Lotus dealers in the US were after Lotus boss Michael Kimberley 's blood after the Lotus-badged Bertone Emotion made its debut at the Detroit show earlier this year . |
| 16 | Similarly , there was an average swing to the Tories in those boroughs where poll tax demands were below government estimates or where household bills were likely to be less than under the rates . |
| 17 | It said that human exposure to the gases were below government limits and there was no evidence that anyone had been harmed by them . |
| 18 | The auberge was built on a knoll and the tops of the nearest trees were below eye level , their foliage a green sea ruffled into waves by the breeze , the rugged backdrop of the mountains softened to a warm gold by the evening sunlight . |
| 19 | The Council was charged with the task of seeing that the new courses were of degree standard , but was powerless to adjudicate on the wisdom or otherwise of there being so many arts-orientated courses in the first place . |
| 20 | In the 1984–88 series , 38% of carcinomas were of type I ( diffuse ) , 55.7% type II ( intestinal ) , and 6.3% mixed . |
| 21 | There were of course successes . |
| 22 | A more fundamental objection has been that music-hall and vaudeville were essentially controlled by showmen who were of course entrepreneurs . |
| 23 | Some directors were of course friends of administration , and used their powers of patronage as far as possible to supplement the efforts of government , but others , and notably the Elphinstone family , used their Indian patronage to sustain an opposition to Henry Dundas in Scotland . |
| 24 | The man who entered a monastery did so , in principle , for life ; there were of course apostates ; there were also a number who moved on to a stricter way of life ; and a few who were promoted to abbeys elsewhere , or to bishoprics , or even to the papacy . |
| 25 | There were of course exceptions such as Mrs Cellier , mid-wife and women 's champion who against all the odds managed to carve a niche for herself as a nurse , to hold her own whilst on trial at the Old Bailey , calmly storing in her pocket stones thrown at her whilst in the stocks and attempted to found a college of therapeutic midwifery . |
| 26 | The annual rituals of Orange and Hibernian celebrations were of course occasions when clashes were inevitable . |
| 27 | There were of course anomalies , but some would have occurred whatever mechanisms for resource allocation had been adopted . |
| 28 | Some of his best shots were of unridden waves . |
| 29 | Equal-span wings were of three-bay biplane configuration had some dihedral but no stagger and measured 97ft tip-to-tip . |
| 30 | Criteria for selection were that at least one parent had intractable seizures ; children were of school age ; the family could function in a group setting and there were no major psychiatric or psychological problems . |